Update: new deadline
Tough Women in Contemporary Popular Culture: Call for Contributors to
a New Anthology on Depictions of Tough Women in Popular Culture
For a new anthology on the depiction of tough women in contemporary
popular culture (1985-present), I am seeking essays that explore the
complex depictions of tough women in popular culture. How are
women's roles influenced and shaped by depictions of tough women?
How do different popular genres depict tough women? Are these new
depictions progressive? How does popular culture depict tough women
from different races, classes, and ethnic backgrounds? How is
toughness in women constituted differently than in men? The range of
materials that could be addressed is vast: toys, television shows,
films, video games, comic books, to name just a few. Essays that
adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their material are welcome, as
are ones that discuss race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic class.
Essays should be lively, vibrant, and engaging; they should be of
broad interest to scholars in many academic disciplines from the
humanities, including history, women's studies, English, American
studies, Chicana Studies, Asian-American studies, and
African-American studies. Articles should be 8,000 to 10,000 words
(including notes and references); accompanying photographs are
welcome. Please send completed article and curriculum vita by
October 1, 2002, to Dr. Sherrie A. Inness, Department of English,
1601 Peck Boulevard, Miami University, Hamilton, Ohio 45011
(inness@muohio.edu). Early submissions are encouraged.
This anthology will be edited by Sherrie A. Inness, Associate
Professor of English at Miami University. Inness is the author or
editor of thirteen books, including The Lesbian Menace: Ideology,
Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian Life (University of
Massachusetts Press, 1997); Delinquents and Debutantes:
Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures (editor, New York
University Press, 1998); Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women
in Popular Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999); Kitchen
Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race
(editor, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001); Pilaf, Pozole, and
Pad Thai: American Women and Ethnic Food (editor, University of
Massachusetts Press, 2001); Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary
Culture (University of Iowa Press, 2001); and Disco Divas: Women and
Popular Culture in the 1970s (University of Pennsylvania Press,
forthcoming, 2003).
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